Great thread. My wife and I have enjoyed many of the shows listed here. Silk is another that is especially good. Season 1 was shown in the US recently on Masterpiece Mystery. Season 2 is just as good (if not better) and can be found elsewhere for download. And I know The Fall was listed in an earlier post - but it deserves a second mention. It is absolutely fantastic!

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Not currently airing, but if you have the means to get it, check out "Black Mirror," which is a sci-fi anthology series akin to "The Twilight Zone." There are only 6 episodes so far (they've done 2 series of 3 episodes each). It'd be rated TV-MA if it aired in the U.S., so don't watch with your kids.

I watched eps 1 and 3 of Black Mirror last night and today and thought they were very good. Ep 2 just couldn't get my interest.

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It looks as though Don Draper might have a doctor cousin across the pond.

In the first U.K. trailer for "Breathless," coming to PBS' "Masterpiece" in 2014, Jack Davenport ("Smash") arrives as a brilliant surgeon in early '60s London, caught up in a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Sound like someone we know?

I hope someone here will know, there was 1980's British tv show, it was about young female, by day was secretary at large private detective firm, at night she had her own PI cases. Usually turns out needing help from someone at her day job. Can anyone recall such a show? I haven't seen it since the 80's, when it was on A&E.

I've picked up a few shows when I rented discs from NetFlix as well as some that air on BBCA. These aren't all current, but worth a mention:

Red Dwarf (I thought it stopped with season 6 and recently discoverred it went up to season 10)
Orphan Black (this show got better as it progressed)
The Office (I'm amazed they made a US version of this because the UK version pretty much sucks)
Derek (heard about this in another thread; definitely a departure from anything else Ricky Gervais has done)
Luther
A Bit of Frye and Laurie
Black Adder
Mr. Bean
Blake's 7
Tripods (similar to War of the Worlds)
Spaced
11th Hour (with Patrick Stewart)
Hexed
Jeeves and Wooster (with Hugh Laurie)

For anyone who prefers not to watch shows by other means, New Tricks is showing on some PBS stations. The next episode in my Guide Data is #704 OAD 9/30/10.

Also, though the shows aren't British, if the OP likes cop shows, I recommend the adaptations of the stories featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Those also turn up on PBS from time to time. And I assume you've already seen Death in Paradise?

Is New Tricks the one about the older male cops working for the younger female one? All of them detectives?

PBS in NC ran about a season's worth a few years ago, it was pretty good.

It's an U.K. remake of 'The Bridge' (Scandinavian version). It's airing now in the U.K. Instead of a bridge they focus on the Chunnel.

"The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover."

The Tunnel is a gripping new thriller from the makers of Broadchurch, set against the backdrop of Europe in crisis.

When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck (Games of Thrones’ Stephen Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Harry Potter's Clémence Poésy) are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.

As the serial killer uses ever more elaborate and ingenious methods to highlight the moral bankruptcy of modern society, Karl and Elise are drawn deeper into his increasingly personal agenda.

It's an U.K. remake of 'The Bridge' (Scandinavian version). It's airing now in the U.K. Instead of a bridge they focus on the Chunnel.

"The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover."

This is getting to be like Big Brother, with multiple countries having their own version. It started with Sweden/Denmark, then the US and now the UK. I guess every country that shares a border with another country can do it. :-)

A new series started today called The Escape Artist starring David Tennant.

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Talented junior barrister Will Burton specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, hence his nickname - the Escape Artist. But when Will's talents acquit his latest client of a brutal and high-profile murder, the consequences are chilling.